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Ai-yi-yi! What is w/the laker obsession?!?! They are not,repeat, NOT going 2 lose this series 2 the hornets, and they will win today.
Immediate concern needs 2 bw/spurs & hope this team can win nxt game-right now it's up inthe air imho
Spurs had over 125 minutes played by players with Finals experience.
That's more than Memphis's minutes by players who had playoff experience.
Ai-yi-yi! What is w/the laker obsession?!?! They are not,repeat, NOT going 2 lose this series 2 the hornets, and they will win today.
Immediate concern needs 2 bw/spurs & hope this team can win nxt game-right now it's up inthe air imho
Meh. I don't care about them either. I just care about the Spurs right now and how they're gonna bounce back next game.
Lakers found a way to do worst than us.
Yeah, but even in losing, the Lakers get an advantage for the rest of the series with Gray going down.
Post-Game Quotes
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=177226
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2011041724Grizzlies stun No. 1 Spurs for first playoff win
By Paul J. Weber
Zach Randolph raised his fists above his head. The Memphis Grizzlies carried the motto “Let’s Make History” into the playoffs, and in a stunning Game 1 upset, they had already done it.
Sixteen years after entering the NBA, the Grizzlies finally have a postseason win.
Randolph had 25 points and 14 rebounds, and Shane Battier hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 23.9 seconds left Sunday to give Memphis a 101-98 victory over the top-seeded San Antonio Spurs.
It’s the first playoff win ever for Memphis, which had been 0-12 in four previous trips.
“It’s nice from an annoyance perspective to have it out of the way, because I don’t have to answer questions about being 0 and 13,” Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins said.
Instead, all the questions are about the 61-win Spurs being down 0-1.
Playing without All-Star guard Manu Ginobili, who continued to rest his sprained right elbow, San Antonio still had a chance to send the game to overtime. Richard Jefferson missed an open, straight-ahead 3-point look as time expired, then bit down on his jersey collar.
“I was wide open,” Jefferson said.
Randolph, who scored nine in the fourth and bullied San Antonio’s aging frontcourt with all of his 255 pounds, walked past Jefferson with his fists raised in triumph. The rest of the Grizzlies bench spilled onto the court, waving towels and leaping back into the locker room.
The Grizzlies entered the NBA in 1995 as an expansion franchise in Vancouver. Six seasons there never ended in the postseason, and after moving to Memphis in 2001, the Grizzlies waited two seasons before the first of three consecutive first-round sweeps. The last was in 2006.
So playoff inexperienced are the Grizzlies that Hollins had never coached in the postseason before Sunday, and eight of his players lacked any playoff experience.
Not Battier. He was with the Grizzlies for all three of those playoff sweeps, making it somewhat fitting that it was his 3-pointer to seal the franchise’s first win.
“It was awesome. I’m really happy for the city,” Battier said. “Beale Street will be a fun place tonight. Most of these guys don’t know the history or the heartache that the city has gone through. I’m happy for the city.”
And his big shot?
“When you’re on the road, down two, may as well go for the 3,” he said.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich wasn’t in the mood to dissect it much, either.
“What do you want to know about it?” Popovich said. “It counted for three. He caught it. He shot it. And he made it.”
Tony Parker led the Spurs with 20 points. But San Antonio sorely missed his backcourt partner, Ginobili, who had been listed as doubtful entering Sunday. Yet between the 33-year-old practicing a day earlier and his teammates convinced he would play, seeing Ginobili in lineup wouldn’t have been much of a stretch.
Popovich played it safe.
“You know (darn) well he’s not happy with me. And you know (darn) well he wants to be on that court,” Popovich said. “But I made my decision.”
Popovich wouldn’t speculate whether Ginobili might play in Game 2 on Wednesday. But after the Spurs lost their sixth consecutive playoff opener, Ginobili may no longer have such hard time convincing Popovich he’s ready.
The Spurs badly missed their second-leading scorer. George Hill started in Ginobili’s place but went just 2 of 7 from the floor and finished with 15 points. The NBA’s top 3-point shooting team also suffered without Ginobili’s range and penetration to draw in perimeter defenders.
San Antonio went 6 of 15 from behind the 3-point line. Matt Bonner hit two of those in the final 2:09, his second one putting San Antonio ahead 96-94 with 1:28 remaining.
The Grizzlies spent the week insisting they didn’t tank their final two games to assure they’d get the Spurs. But the way Randolph and Marc Gasol, who had 24 points and nine rebounds, punished San Antonio in the frontcourt, San Antonio certainly doesn’t look like a bad matchup for Memphis.
“Zach played great. He made some great shots with Marc,” said Spurs forward Tim Duncan, who had 16 points and 13 rebounds. “They’re both big bodies and that’s what they’re game is based on, having those bigs inside. And them making shots, we have to pay attention to them more, obviously.”
Eighth seeds have eliminated No. 1s just three times in NBA history.
For now, the Grizzlies are just happy with a start.
“We’re in the playoffs,” Hollins said. “It’s not important to me that it’s our first playoff win ever.”
Notes: The Spurs shot a season- and playoff-high 47 free throw attempts. They made 36 of them. …The Grizzlies are now 3-2 against the Spurs this season.
Parker took what Doc Rivers calls a hero shot---not a good shot but you want to be the hero.
Parker's hit that shot way more than he's missed it, but it wasn't a good shot IMO. He's about eighth on my blame list for this loss though.
http://www.48minutesof .com/game-...tonio-spurs-98Game 1: Memphis Grizzlies 101, San Antonio Spurs 98
by Jesse Blanchard
48 Minutes of
AT&T CENTER–San Antonio won many of the little battles but ultimately lost the war in the Spurs 101-98 Game 1 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies–their sixth straight series opener loss.
Behind Tim Duncan’s 13 rebounds, the Spurs outrebounded the Grizzlies 40-38, holding Memphis to just five offensive rebounds and outscoring them 15-5 on both second chance and fast break points.
“It should (have been enough), but it wasn’t,” Tim Duncan said. “We just didn’t do enough down the stretch and that was the game right there. We stuck to our game plan, did a good job of keeping them off the offensive glass, but they made more plays down the stretch.”
The guy normally responsible for making those plays of course was in street clothes today, but Manu’s absence does not take away from what was a very solid game plan from the Memphis Grizzlies. If you can’t catch them, beat them. The Grizzlies set the tone early, dragging the San Antonio Spurs into the ugly game that was once their calling card.
Several of these Spurs have danced this dance before, and for a moment it was shades of Jerry Sloan and the Utah Jazz again, playing the notes through the tweets of the referees’ whistles. Legs, arms, knees and elbows at every twist and turn.
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If Pop holds Manu out of game 2 this series is over.Popovich wouldn’t speculate whether Ginobili might play in Game 2 on Wednesday. But after the Spurs lost their sixth consecutive playoff opener, Ginobili may no longer have such hard time convincing Popovich he’s ready.
If Pop holds Splitter out of game 2 this series is going to be pretty damn difficult. The slow-it-down, George Hill-centric Spurs need to be able to play defense.
regardless of everything..
RJ should've hit that shot..
Agreed, he hits that shot all day long and he was open but he wasn't hot this game. It's not magically going to start going in. Give it to the person that was on fire.
The Spurs have only lost three straight, right? They won the first game in 2008 and 2006. But they've lost 4 out of the last 6 openers.But after the Spurs lost their sixth consecutive playoff opener
yeah, theyve dropped 5 openers since '05!
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...laimed-game-1/Instant analysis: How the Grizzlies claimed Game 1
Tim Griffin
...How the game was won: Even with their success inside, the Grizzlies relied on outside shooting to pull out the victory. Shane Battier took advantage of a late rotation by Tony Parker to drain a 24-footer from deep in the left corner with 23.9 seconds left to give the Grizzlies the lead for good. Several hours later, his second child was born in Houston. How good of a day was it for Battier?
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Battier’s shot puts Spurs in early hole
Jeff McDonald
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...in-early-hole/
I hate freakin game ones man
Regardless of everything, the Spurs probably shouldn't have been down three at that point in the game. They've choked in late game situations against lesser teams in the last few weeks. A lot.
That's what I can't understand. I figured they would've put an end to it after the Portland game. But then came Houston and now Memphis. Who's in charge there?
Not only this, but at one point in the season we were like 11-1 in games w/in 5pt and 3 min to go. I think the Manu stepback 3 airball in Boston started the slide though.
Ugh, Game 1's for the Spurs are almost never good. No worry to start the panic meter up. Spurs will win Wednesday.
wow they just showed a grizzlies viewing party. looked like about 25 people attended.
Yeah, that "fact" was wrong in the recap report. The Spurs didnt lose Game 1 of the opening series of the Playoffs in 06' and 08'. But they have lost Game 1's of the opening round in 07', 09', 10', and now this year....
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